Job 9:14
what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
In Context
13God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world,
15And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge.
Cross References
Job 4:19How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
Job 9:32For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.
Job 23:4I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,
Job 25:6Is man much more than rottenness and the son of man much more than worms?
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →